Game apparatus



A ril 5, 1938. .J.TQRREs 2,113,521 v GAME APPARATUS Filed July 21, 1936 IN NTOR Patented Apr. 5, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

The invention relates to a game device and more especially toa target game apparatus.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a device or apparatus of this character, wherein through the use of marbles a target may be struck and in this manner affording amusement to a player as well as requiring accuracy in the throwing of a marble for the striking of the target, the target when struck will sound a gong thereby signifying the winning of the game.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a device or apparatus of this character, wherein the players are not required to kneel or sit upon the ground as such game is played while standing and involves a target in the nature of an image to be struck by a. marble when thrown by a player, the device or apparatus when being played affords pleasure and amusement.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a device or apparatus of this character, which is simple in its construction, serviceable as a toy, thoroughly reliable and efficient in operation, requiring skill in the playing thereof, and inexpensive to manufacture.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which discloses the preferred embodiment of the invention and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through a device or apparatus constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a front elevation thereof.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectional view on the line 3-3 of Figure 1 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawing.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the device or apparatus comprises a box-like body 5 which is vertically walled and is formed with an inclined playing bed 6 at the top of said body, the playing side thereof being carpeted or covered with a felt sheeting I to minimize noise in the playing of the device or apparatus.

Above the playing bed 6 is arranged a canopy or hood 8 having the inclined front open end 9 and this canopy or hood slopes rearwardly in the direction of the rear wall i of the body while the front wall I I of such body rises a distance above the lowermost plane of the bed 6 to effect a guard at the front of the device or apparatus. Adapted to be thrown into the open end 9- of the canopy or hood 8 are spherical objects I2 in the nature of marbles for the striking of a target when aimed v at the same the target being hereinafter fully described.

The tar-get is in the form of a circular head or disk I3 carried at the upper end of a vertically swinging upstanding lever I4 pivoted at I5 in a bracket I6 threaded on a stud I! of a stand I8 10 for a bell I9. This stand is fixed within a rear: compartment 20 provided by a partition 2| interiorly of the body 5 for supporting the bell I9 above the flooring of said body and beneath the playing bed 6 as well as carrying the bracket I6 for the swinging pivoted lever I4.

The front or exposed face of the head or disk I 3 is ornamented to simulate an image as at 22. This lever I4 carrying the head or disk I3 projects upwardly through a slot 23 provided in the bed 6 and forming a clearance for said lever so that a player can aim an object I2 at the head or disk for the striking thereof.

Swin-gingly fitted within the stand I8 for the bell I9 is a clapper 24 for said bell and this clapper is actuated by a plunger 25 engaged by a trigger 26 on the lever I4. Thus on the striking of the target, namely, the head or disk I3, the plunger 25- is actuated for moving the clapper 24 to sound the bell I9 indicative of a strike upon the target.

The lever I4 at its lower end is formed with a weight 21 for the holding of the lever normally in upright position and coasting with this weight is a trip arm 28, it having connection with a staff 29 carrying a placard 30 provided with in- 3 dicia such as the word Win at 3| on the exposed front face thereof, the placard being adapted for projection through a slot 32 provided in the bed 6, the placard being normally in lowered position and out of view but when on the target the placard 30 moves upwardly through the slot 32 for exposing its indicia indicative of the winning of the game as played by the device or apparatus.

The arm 28 is pivoted at 33 in a hanger 34 fixed to and depending from the under side of the bed 6. This bed 6 at its front or forward end is cut away to provide an'opening 35 communicating with a compartment 36 provided in the body 5 at the front thereof and created by the partition 2I which renders this compartment 36 separate and independent from the compartment 20. The opening 35 is to receive the marbles I2 projected into the canopy or hood 8 as such marbles spent will roll upon the bed 6 in a forward direction and a strike has been had 40 be disposed within the compartment 36 where the standing from said stand, a bracket fixed to the stud and extending laterally therefrom, a vertically swinging lever pivoted to the bracket and having its upper end projected above the playing bed through a clearance therein, a disk-like head carried at the upper end of said lever and presenting an image, a weight at the lower end of the lever, a bell on the stand and. fixed by the bracket thereto, a clapper swingingly supported in the stand for striking the bell, a plunger slidable through the stud rising from the stand and engageable, with the clapper, and a trigger integral with the leverand engageable with the plunger for operating the same on the striking of v, the target by a thrown object above the playing bed.

, JOSEPH TORRES. 

